A fan of AMC’s The Terror helped identify real-life crew member of doomed expedition
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Image: AMC It's an exciting time to be a part of AMC's The Terror fandom. Through the efforts of one of its members, a team of researchers were able to reveal the fate of one of the men who died in the real life events depicted by the show.
In a paper published in The Journal of Archeological Science: Reports, a team of anthropologists from the University of Waterloo wrote that they used DNA testing from a living descendent to identify the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, one of the real crew members of the doomed expedition.
The first season of AMC's The Terror dramatized the events of Captain John Franklin's quest to find the Northwest Passage in 1845. During the voyage, the expedition's two ships, the HMS Terror led by Francis Crozier and...